| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: Augustine to him, and seating her on his knee, spoke as follows:--
"My dear child, you shall marry your Sommervieux since you insist; you
may, if you like, risk your capital in happiness. But I am not going
to be hoodwinked by the thirty thousand francs to be made by spoiling
good canvas. Money that is lightly earned is lightly spent. Did I not
hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening that money was
made round that it might roll. If it is round for spendthrifts, it is
flat for saving folks who pile it up. Now, my child, that fine
gentleman talks of giving you carriages and diamonds! He has money,
let him spend it on you; so be it. It is no concern of mine. But as to
what I can give you, I will not have the crown-pieces I have picked up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: be when we grow really old? Of yore, a man was thought to
lay on restrictions and acquire new deadweight of mournful
experience with every year, till he looked back on his youth
as the very summer of impulse and freedom. We please
ourselves with thinking that it cannot be so with us. We
would fain hope that, as we have begun in one way, we may end
in another; and that when we are in fact the octogenarians
that we SEEM at present, there shall be no merrier men on
earth. It is pleasant to picture us, sunning ourselves in
Princes Street of a morning, or chirping over our evening
cups, with all the merriment that we wanted in youth.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: impious pontiffs, with their flatterers, do now in my case and
that of those who are like me, upon whom, together with
ourselves, may God at length have mercy, and lift up the light of
His countenance upon them, that we may know His way upon earth
and His saving health among all nations, who is blessed for
evermore. Amen. In the year of the Lord MDXX.
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